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Software Universe in Hamburg sneak preview

pspielvogel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:53:00 GMT

Software Universe is only five weeks away. We hold this event twice each year, alternating between a United States and European location. The upcoming event is in Hamburg at the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH) from Wednesday, December 16th – Friday, December 18th 2009.

(If you missed our last Software Universe in Las Vegas, you can download some of the presentations here.)

I’m very excited about this year’s show, as it gives me a chance to connect with many European customers and colleagues, many of whom I have only “met” through email and phone calls. In addition, there are many interesting presentations. Some highlights* (based on their relevancy to managing IT infrastructure - both physical and virtual) include:

Wednesday December 16

16:00-16:45	Optimizing cost by automating your ITIL v3 processes Jeroen Bronkhorst, Hewlett-Packard
17:00 - 17:45	“Monitoring ....inside the Cloud" Vincenzo Asaro, Telecom Italia
18:00 - 18:45	Orchestrating Virtual Infrastructures with HP OO Ralph Capasso, Hewlett-Packard

Thursday December 17

09:00 - 09:45	Automating operations management with HP Operations Orchestration Ralph Capasso, Hewlett-Packard
09:00 - 09:45	HP management of VMware vSphere: How does VMware fit in with your HP Software Infrastructure? Terry Lyons, VMware
10:00 - 10:45	The all new Operations Center licensing model: escaping the hardware bonds Jon Haworth and Peter Crosby, Hewlett-Packard
11:45 - 12:30	HP Operations Manager i: Best practices and lessons learned at CMT Kai-Uwe Jensen, Hewlett-Packard
15:15 - 16:00	BTO Impact of Virtualization on IT Management Dennis Corning, Hewlett-Packard
15:15 - 16:00	Operations Center, the road ahead Norm Follett, Hewlett-Packard
16:30 - 17:15	HP Operations Manager on Linux Lillian Hull and Hans-Peter Schmollinger, Hewlett-Packard
16:30 - 17:15	Capabilities in a Virtualized environment Lutz Bartsch, Hewlett-Packard

Friday December 18

09:00 - 09:45	Virtualization SPI - VMware management plug-in for HP Operations Center Jagannath Harish Gangaiah, Hewlett-Packard
11:45 - 12:30	HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping: a solution to regain control on your infrastructure Thomas Wirtz, Hewlett-Packard
11:45 - 12:30	Integrated approach to monitoring and the challenges encountered and overcome Mark Laird and Romain Maitret, Steria Ltd

* dates, times, and speakers subject to change

Hope to see you there.

For HP Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.

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Your success is my success (customer visit summary)

pspielvogel — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:40:00 GMT

Another guest post by Lillian Hull, product manager for Operations Manager on Unix.
- Peter Spielvogel

Earlier this month, my colleagues and I spent some time with one of our customers in the health insurance sector. They were interested in our plans around Operations Manager and in particular, Operations Manager i.

Their environment includes a variety of HP Software & Solutions products including Operations Manager on UNIX (OMU), Business Availability Center (BAC), Discovery and Dependency Mapping (DDM), Network Node Manager (NNM) and SiteScope (SiS).

The portfolio is well-integrated and users familiar with BAC should feel right at home with OMi. OMi can provide a single “operations bridge” to reduce operational costs. All events are sent to the operations bridge and monitored by staff well-versed in IT operations. This centralization makes it easier to distinguish between causes and symptoms to better isolate the cause of a set of events. This in turn leads to more rapid problem resolution.

As with many of our customers, another topic they wanted to talk more about was virtualization. They are using Linux and virtual machines. For many environments, the slight overhead of running OM in a virtual machine should not have significant impact on performance or scalability.

Finally, during the wrap-up, the customer told us how much they want to work with us and our host said that our success with Operations Manager is linked to his success as an infrastructure architect. His words were “your success is my success”. Our products are vital to keeping everything running smoothly in this organization. HP is very fortunate to have customers that share their insights with us as not just another vendor, but as a trusted adviser. And due to great customers like this one, I am confident we will both triumph.

For HP Operations Center, Lillian Hull.

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Innovation Week Part 2 - Operations Manager i 8.1

pspielvogel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:00 GMT

While OMU 9.0 represents evolutionary innovation, Operations Manager i 8.1 (OMi) is truly revolutionary. Operations Manager i is a set of add-on products which extends existing HP Operations Manager to provide advanced event correlation and system health capabilities.

It uses the proven causal engine from NNMi with a completely new set of rules designed for server infrastructure rather than network components. This topology-based event correlation reduces duplication of effort in the Operations Bridge by automatically determining which events are symptoms and which are the cause of a problem. If you don’t have TBEC, you have to write and maintain a ton of rules to eliminate events that are symptoms and not causes. This is time consuming (eight full-time people for a medium-sized European bank) and error prone.

Conservative estimates indicate that OMi can save over $3 million annually in event processing per year for a company the size of HP. If I can get the real numbers next year, I will post them here.

To learn more about OMi, you can attend a Vivit webinar on July 21, 2009 or EMA webinar on July 28, 2009.

For Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.

Free Webinar: HP Operations Manager i Software Deep Dive Presentation

pspielvogel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:34:00 GMT

My colleague and consolidated event management expert Jon Haworth is the guest speaker at an upcoming Vivit webinar on Tuesday July 21 . Vivit is the independent HP Software users community.

Jon will talk about using an operations bridge effectively and how the latest advanced correlation and visualization technology can help you reduce downtime. His presentation will address:
• What are the major differences between HP Operations Manager and HP Operations Manager i software?
• How does Topology Based Event Correlation (TBEC) work?
• How does HP OMi fit into my existing Operations Manager environment?

There will be plenty of time for Jon to answer your questions at the end of the session.

For Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.

OMi Webinar and Demo Now Available

pspielvogel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:21:00 GMT

Every time I speak to customers about consolidated event and performance management, they want to know HP’s vision. What does the end-state look like? How do all the pieces fit together to save my company money? How does an Operation Bridge drive efficiencies? How does OMi extend my existing monitoring infrastructure? Now, we have a recorded webinar that answers these questions.

In 25 minutes, Jon Haworth, one of the Product Marketing Managers for Operations Center will explain how to:

increase the efficiency of managing IT Operations
cut costs while improving quality of business services
speed the time to problem resolution

In addition, Dave Trout shows a short demo of topology-based event correlation in action, including how to:

filter events and identify root causes
use system health indicators and KPIs to summarize availability and performance
visualize configuration items in the context of business services

See the OMi webinar now.

For Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.